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Well, what do you know.
Apparently, if the posts popping up all over my f-list these last couple of days are to be believed, lj has set out to delete and purge inactive comms. I have no clue what their time frame for "inactivity" is, but I figured a post to show this comm still has a lot to offer to everyone was in order.
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Legal name change procedures/ease?
I have a question about the ease (or not) of a legal name change in Canada. To save flists, I'll put my tl;dr fanon and questions under the cut.
( Fanon inside. ) -
Vancouver seasons
I'm nibbling away at a story set in Vancover in the 2002-2004 range, and I'll eventually have someone locale-beta it for me, but I'd like to get as many details right from the start as I can. These questions have already occurred to me, and I was hoping folks might be able to contribute their expertise ( Read more... ) -
Vancouver: Ocean? -- All set!
So, once upon a time I wrote a story in which Rodney reflected that Vancouver was "on the ocean". Today, looking at a map, I noticed ... maybe not so much, because there's kind of a huge land mass out there.
I live in New England and would probably just go with the idea of Boston being "on the ocean", even though it's really on a bay of the ( Read more... ) -
Math & Science Universities in Canada
I am trying to figure something out - if John Sheppard was a math professor and Rodney McKay was a physics professor at a Canadian university, where would be the most likely candidates for them to be teaching? Graduate programs over undergrad, if there is a difference. I tried googling for top 10 lists and the results were conflicting (and the ( Read more... ) -
forms of address, child to adult woman
What would a small child address an adult woman as in Canada (specifically, Vancouver)? Where I come from, friends-of-parents are generally called Miss (as in, Miss Catherine -- used for married women, too), or Aunty (Aunty Catherine). Would a child in these modern times be encouraged to use an adult's first name, or last name (Mrs Jones)? Thank -
Beer
The eternal question. What kind of beer does Rodney drink?
I am not a very well-travelled Canadian, and don't drink very much beer. I also doubt that the near-fanatic devotion to Alexander Keith's in my hometown is the national standard, so: Do most Canadians tend to drink regional brands, or do the Big Companies (Labatt's, Coors, Oland,etc) ( Read more... )